draw blood

draw blood

1.Lit. to hit or bite (a person or an animal) and make a wound that bleeds. The dog chased me and bit me hard, but it didn't draw blood.The boxer landed just one punch and drew blood immediately.

2.Fig. to anger or insult a person. Sally screamed out a terrible insult at Tom. Judging by the look on his face, she really drew blood.Tom started yelling and cursing, trying to insult Sally. He wouldn't be satisfied until he had drawn blood, too.

draw blood

draw blood

Injure someone physically or emotionally. For example, The bullet skimmed his shoulder and barely drew any blood, or That reviewer really knows how to draw blood. This term alludes to drawing blood for diagnostic purposes.

But his distant moans do not greatly pain me now; rather am I elated to find (as the waters bring him nearer) that this boy is I, for it is something to know that, once upon a time, a woman could draw blood from me as from another.

We are drawn up in a line, and we charge; and if we do not strike down those before us, they will begin to draw blood without asking leave, so you have to kill if you do not mean to be killed, and your conscience is quite easy.

The Company manufactures, markets and distributes the Lasette, the only FDA-cleared alternative to the needle or steel blade lancet currently available for diabetics to draw blood so as to test their glucose levels for insulin injections.

Soon they had a 200-year back story that traced its fabricated origins to 1785 when several children in the Maryland township of Blair accused Elly Kedward of luring them into her home to draw blood from them.

Parallel to the pump, MiniMed has been developing an implantable sensor for continuous, real-time testing of a diabetic's blood sugar level, eliminating the need for repeated finger pricks to draw blood.

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